Editor of Blast Magazine, Co-founder of Vorticism
Wyndahm Lewis (1882–1957), an English painter and author, eceived an education at Rugby School and at the Slade School of Art, University College, London. He co-founded the artistic movement, Vorticism and edited BLAST, the movement’s literary magazine.
The friendship of Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis began in London in 1909, survived two European wars and the rise and fall of the totalitarian governments both men misguidedly supported, and lasted through Pound’s years of confinement at St. Elizabeths, to Lewis’s death in 1957. In Pound/Lewis, their correspondence of five decades is gathered for the first time; it proves a revealing reflection of their intense, always professional, mutual regard.
